soxandpinstripes.com - 30 days ago
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If you were looking for anything about a player's reaction towards winning a championship, the main focus had to be on Alex Rodriguez. This is a man who didn't win for 14 seasons, on three different teams, as the best player in the game. And that doesn't even begin to tell the story. A-Rod is ...
The Year of the Centaur: A review of A-Rod's memorable 2009
sports.yahoo.com 26 days ago — It started with accusations of PEDs down in Florida. It ended with a parade up in New York. Yes, the 2009 season of Alex Rodriguez (notes) was one of the weirdest years ever staged by a Major League Baseball player. Containing both the highest of ...
Is A-Rod the New American Hero?
ballornuthin.com 11/2/2009 — About 9 months…roughly 270 days…
That’s how long ago reports surfaced that New York Yankees’ superstar slugger Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids back in 2003. We all recall that shaky interview in which Rodriguez “came clean” about his use of ...
A-Rod One Step Away from Redemption
noyoureatowel.net 10/28/2009 — I was asked by a co-worker when the season started how I thought Alex Rodriguez would do. I answered "MVP-quality season". I got a shocked "huh?". I mean A-Rod had just been exposed as a fraud by Joe Torre and furthermore by the steroids admission he was forced to give after finding he was on ...
A-Rod, where did you go?
theyankeeuniverse.com 10/31/2009 —
Alex Rodriguez has 6 strikeouts, thus far, in the World Series. He’s performing like it’s 2006.
Here’s Tom Verducci’s (SI) take on A-Rod’s first two games of the series:
Those were some funky swings Alex ...
The Breakfast That Saved A-Rod
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 10/28/2009 — This breakfast took place just two days prior to A-Rod first at-bat of the season, a home run off Jeremy Guthrie in Baltimore. It seems like Yankees fans owe the people at this meeting a big thank you for their efforts. I would have to say their methods worked. From Ian O'Conner : “I sat down ...
The 2009 MLB Season Has Belonged To A-Rod
rumorsandrants.com 11/2/2009 —
The 2009 Major League Baseball season began with the startling revelation that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids in 2003. That was followed quickly by a bizarre and totally unbelievable admission from A-Rod that a cousin had bought performance-enhancing drugs for him ...
A-Rod redemption
scoresreport.com 10/18/2009 —
It’s been a surreal year for Alex Rodriguez. It began with disgrace, as he joined the club of major league players implicated in the never-ending steroids scandal. He was never a fan favorites in New York, and now he had sunk to a new low. His reputation would be forever tarnished.
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A-Rod - who else? - makes World Series history
nydailynews.com 11/1/2009 — Was there any chance that the first-ever home run reviewed by replay in the World Series wouldn’t involve Alex Rodriguez?
A-Rod was the subject of the first replay call in baseball history, so it was ironic that his two-run shot in the ...
Evaluating the A-Rod experiment
hardballtimes.com 10/26/2009 — A-Rod plus an interim replacement may have proved one of the wisest investments on draft day Click the title to read more. Read more great baseball stuff at The Hardball Times .
A-Rod caps rocky year in, um, style —
NY Post: Sports 29 days ago
A season that began with an embarrassing press conference for Alex Rodriguez ended with a triumphant trip up Broadway.
Rodriguez captured his first championship, and in the process answered all the questions about his postseason capabilities, batting...
A-Rod wipes slate clean —
NY Post: Sports 29 days ago
A-Rod's on a roll!
The often-stoic Yankee beamed with pride yesterday as he rode up the Canyon of Heroes, finally enjoying the cheers he's sought since arriving in The Bronx in 2004.
Wearing a fedora, sunglasses and a Yankee game jacket, A-Rod ...
